Photo: Qafzeh 11 and Qafzeh 9

13 Feb 2013

This week I’ve been at the Vienna Natural History Museum to do some work. It’s one of the great museums of the world, and they have a new human evolution exhibition with several great reconstructions of fossil specimens by Elizabeth Daynès. Several original hominin skeletal specimens are here on loan for a short time, including these:

Those are Qafzeh 11 and Qafzeh 9 from the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, around 90,000 years old.

John Hawks is the Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I work on the fossil and genetic record of human evolution (About me).

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